| Published: Waubonsee Insight |
| Date: September 2006 |
| Section: Opinion/Editorial |
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By: Ian Essling
It's not a big surprise that most people have not heard about this story; in this day and age, the sensationalist mainstream news would normally pounce on a story about terrorism on American soil, if it involved any group of people other than the group that it actually did.
No, the media gave this story essentially no coverage, because this attack did not involve Al Qaida. Nor did it involve Hezbollah, the IRA, Hamas or one of those crazy "liberation front" groups.
Instead, a sect of society that we meet in our everyday travels mounted this attack; the terribly unlawful and disrespectful actions that took place on August 26th were the workings of illegal immigrants and their supporters; specifically, Mexican illegal immigrants.
You know, one of the reasons I like to be a journalist is because I love to spark discussion. I love to bring up issues for debate, and I love to bring to light issues that are hiding in darkness. I think it's insane that so many people have not heard about this issue; the media has done a good job covering the butts of the racists attacking the very fabric of our nation.
Of course, I consider it my duty to inform the readers of this paper of said issues, so here I am, bringing to light one of the most despicable incidents of racism in recent memory.
On August 26th, Minutemen, the citizen project for legal immigration, staged a peaceful rally against the City of Maywood for the latter's choice to become an illegal alien stronghold.
Not to be outdone, illegal aliens and their allies poured onto the streets to "protest the racists."
The illegals and citizens were kept apart by a number of barriers, but often, videos caught illegals running out into the no man's land to scream explicatives at American citizens before retreating back behind their signs. The criminals, not satisfied with simply yelling back and forth, decided to attack a Federal post office, and removed the American flag from the flagpole. If that wasn't bad enough, they then raised a Mexican flag in its place.
Last I checked, foreign nationals removing the symbol of our country from a Federal installation was something pretty bad. Let me see if I can remember, oh right, it's an act of war!
Who do these people think they are? I mean, honestly, if I marched my white butt down to Mexico and tore the Mexican flag of a government building and put the Stars and Stripes up there, how do you think THAT would go over?
Pretty badly, I think; about as well as if I went down there and demanded that English be the official language of the country.
I should point out, however, that not all of the people who participated in this attack were illegals. Some were legal immigrants who, for some reason or another, decided to throw in their lot with a bunch of criminals.
I have watched a number of home videos taken of the attack, and I was disgusted at what I saw.
After tearing down the American flag and hoisting the Mexican flag, the terrorists chanted and shouted and swore at the Americans who were out there to protest the city's decision to make itself a haven for illegals.
Now, I'm no expert on Spanish, unless I'm being sworn at in it, so I can't understand most of the chants that these criminals are saying. However, they helpfully wrote a number of their slogans on giant poster boards, and savvy photographers captured the blatant racism quite nicely.
Actually, I thought it was pretty funny that they were chanting their "death to U.S. citizens" malarkey in Spanish. Cause I have this crazy idea that they were about the only people in the area that understood what they were saying, so what exactly does that accomplish? I know I would have been laughing my butt off when they were doing that, had I been there. I mean, if you're trying to make a point, wouldn't you want your opposition to understand what you are saying?
Anyway, I am getting off topic; back to the depraved insults these criminals were hurling. Video at the scene captured a number of illegals saying that they were going to "kill Americans," and also caught them calling Americans "blue eyed devils." Ain't that nice and neighborly.
Other signs proclaimed intelligent phrases such as "Illegal European invaders go back to Europe," "Deport white supremacists," and "Minuteklan Go Home."
Wow, quite original, aren't they? And this is coming from people who claim to want to join our country? Become citizens? Wear baseball caps and eat apple pie?
Uh huh.well, they could have fooled me. I would think, but maybe I'm way off base here, that if your goal is to meld into a country, you would probably not want to run around calling the current citizens of the country "devils" and telling them to evict the continent. I mean, maybe that's just me, but it sure seems like a big no-no.
I also saw video and read eyewitness accounts of manhandling at the hands of the illegals. American citizens, trying to get around the barricades placed in the street, were shoved, heckled and struck; one women had her shirt ripped and her hair pulled, while an elderly man was literally knocked to the ground by the rowdy illegals.
As I was watching some of this video, I was screaming, 'where are the police?' and maybe you are too.
Oh, the police were there; unfortunately, the police were protecting the criminals instead of the citizens.
After repeated calls by the citizens protesters, police eventually tried to pull down the shameful Mexican flag, but the flag ended up tangled in the rope, and the cops were hassled by illegals at the base of the flag pole, turning the matter into a long, drawn out process.
Now, I know that someone, somewhere is going to take offense at me calling these people terrorists. I understand that me calling illegal immigrants terrorists might sound a little shocking, so, since I am a reasonable person, and also a fair debater, I will explain my use of that terminology.
The U.S. State Department defines terrorism as "premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents, usually intended to influence an audience."
So let's get this straight; premeditated (check), politically motivated (double check), violence (check), against noncombatant targets (check), by subnational groups (say, illegals?).
It also says it is to influence an audience. Well, heck, that was quite the goal of this little stunt, wouldn't you think? These criminals are out here to say, 'hey, citizens of America, we hate your guts, we hate your flag, we hate your laws, and we hate how you are trying to make us obey said laws.'
So apparently, the solution is simple; you break a law, the way to fix it is to break more laws.
Makes sense, right? Yes? No? Ok, forget about it, it's never going to make sense. Moving on.
After watching a number of the videos of this event, and reading some of the disgusting literature posted on websites such as "The Mexican Movement," "Aztlan Separatist Movement," and the Communistic "Answer LA," I am more convinced then ever that if most Americans do not see the depth and scope of the illegal immigration problem, something must be done very quickly to insure that every American citizen knows the facts. If these sites are a representation of illegal immigrants policies and modes of operations, then this attack was only the beginning.
These sites are filled with hate; pure, unadulterated hate. It seeps from every pixel on the screen.
People can discuss why illegals come to the U.S. until they are blue in the face, and they can defend these criminals' "right" to better jobs until the sun goes down, but while these disillusioned people are living in their dream world, the rest of us need to realize that this is a serious issue this country is facing.
This latest stunt is evidence that illegals are not the teddy bears the media would like us to think they are; while I do not think every illegal immigrant is like the ones who declared war on our country on August the 26th, there are enough bad ones to cause significant problems for our country.
If it were up to me, I would sit every American down and make them watch every video clip from this attack.
Regardless of your politics, no American can watch illegal immigrants tear the Stars and Stripes off a building and hoist a Mexican flag without feeling angry, upset and betrayed; betrayed by our politicians, who have let this situation run unchecked for so long. |
